Halforums Academy 2 Character Creation Thread

Eriol

Eriol

Celt Z said:
I think I'm the only person that didn't put 4 or 5 for Intelligence, which explains why I'm always at the bottom of the class ranking. I thought it was going to be a little more diversified.
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I also put a 3 on intelligence, because I put so damned high on athletics. So... ya. I guess that explains my ranking there when the rest are 5!


Maybe be even harsher next time, on that only 2-3 people can be 5s (for each attribute) in the entire class. And same for the 1s. I just wonder how things would shake out if it was slightly more realistic is all.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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MindDetective said:
Definitely next time give us limitations on our points.
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Yeah, gotta work out exactly how that point system would work, though. For some people, using morality as a dump stat might be seen as advantageous. If I limit to 13 points for all 4 stats, You could go 4 int 4 str 4 soc 1 mor and probably have a very popular kid with excellent grades and who wins most fights... in the short term. Long term they might get into trouble when trying to sleep with everything that moves comes back to bite them in the ass.

I guess I never really thought too long about it because I assumed people would be rolling expys of themselves, and would rank their stats akin to how they considered their own attributes. I think for the most part it worked out, except for a couple people who obviously gamed the system a little, but at least we don't have any 5/5s :p
 
Dei

Dei

I really don't find it too surprising that a lot of people gave themselves high int. Have you *seen* the demographics here? :p
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Dei said:
I really don't find it too surprising that a lot of people gave themselves high int. Have you *seen* the demographics here? :p
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This. We have at least 3 authors, several tech specialists, a couple of education people, some actual chemists and scientists... it's not surprising we all ranked high in Intelligence.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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AshburnerX said:
This. We have at least 3 authors, several tech specialists, a couple of education people, some actual chemists and scientists... it's not surprising we all ranked high in Intelligence.
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Except for Terrik, who wasn't smart enough to avoid rating his wife's INT a "3" ;)
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

A character creation script of some sort might be fun to do with this in the future - unless there is one somewhere on the depths of the interwebs?
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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jwhouk said:
A character creation script of some sort might be fun to do with this in the future - unless there is one somewhere on the depths of the interwebs?
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Well, technically speaking, yes there is. It comes with the game, which in this hemisphere, is only available by pirate torrent ;) That's pretty "depths of the internet!"
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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jwhouk said:
For anyone wanting to do a random character: An Excel spreadsheet that randomizes characteristic stats, fighting style, personality, club membership and traits (including the possibility of none!).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9AJYQpA8CKFeU9SbVV3NjRmVDQ/view?usp=sharing
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I might make some small change recommendations - don't count sexual orientation toward the point total (really I'd not even count virtue toward it.. just, say, 10 points to be split between INT/STR/SOC).
 
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